Are staked coins not available to use?

Hello, most of my available balance has automatically migrated over to 'staked'. from the 'available' section [see image]. Does this mean that my tokens are not available for me to send/use etc., ?
appreciate some guidance. thank you.

I heard of that technique, however I suspect that "splitting" is not a great idea because although you will always have coins "staking" in multiple addresses simultaneously, I suspect that you will weaken your weight versus the network weight.

Example:

You have 1000 QTUM in 1 address = approximately 7 days to stake a block.

If you have 1000 QTUM split between 10 addresses equally, then each "staked" address only has a weight of 100 on the network which translates to:

You have 100 QTUM in 1 address = approximately 70 days to stake a block.

@rmplx@dw2929
It turns out that I was wrong!
When you split your large balance into smaller balances - (approximately 250-400 QTUM recommended) it does not take away from your wallet weight.

So if you have 20,000 coins split up, you will still have a weight of 20,000 until you "mine" a block which will attribute one of your 400 QTUM UTXO to your 0.4 QTUM reward. Then your wallet will place 400.4 QTUM under the category "Staking".

The rest of your balance - 19,600 QTUM would still be available to stake immediately with a weight of 19,600!